The PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale kicks off tomorrow, giving paying PSN users an early look at the upcoming Sony-tastic fighter. If you're looking to try the game on PS3, then a PlayStation Plus membership is required. PS Vita owners, on the other hand, can jump into the limited beta without a Plus subscription.

Not that Sony is completely shafting non-paying PSN users. The limited beta will come to an end on October 23, at which point, the public beta goes live. So a bit of a wait, but at least everyone will get a shot.

The beta will support Cross-Play, meaning players on PS3 and Vita will be able to fight each other in some cross-platform action. Here's what to expect in terms of content:

You’ll be able to play as Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Colonel Radec, Sly Cooper, PaRappa, and Fat Princess.

You’ll be able to play in both the Metropolis and Hades stages.

You’ll be able to try out four-player online tournaments and 2 v 2 online tournaments. For the 2 v 2 games we’ll be supporting friend invites, so you and a friend can fight another team online.

Beta is set to end on October 30. The full game is expected to arrive November 20. Purchasing the PS3 version will automatically get you the Vita version as well.

For the skin fanatics out there, pre-ordering PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will unlock a ton of those, including the following skins shown below.

Thread Recap (last 10 posts from newest to oldest)

Nov 01, 12 at 1:13pm

Slash

I'm pretty sure in the original ssb Jigglypuff had more than just 1 and 2 similar moves.I might have remembered this wrong but I highly doubt it.Oh and the Evo thing hey it might be a small side event. Yeah I doubt it too though ssb has a higher chance than psasbr.

No.

Ok.

Nov 01, 12 at 12:10pm

Sakuraba Neku

I'm pretty sure in the original ssb Jigglypuff had more than just 1 and 2 similar moves.I might have remembered this wrong but I highly doubt it.Oh and the Evo thing hey it might be a small side event. Yeah I doubt it too though ssb has a higher chance than psasbr.

No.

Oct 31, 12 at 9:58am

Slash

I'm pretty sure in the original ssb Jigglypuff had more than just 1 and 2 similar moves.I might have remembered this wrong but I highly doubt it.Oh and the Evo thing hey it might be a small side event. Yeah I doubt it too though ssb has a higher chance than psasbr.

Oct 30, 12 at 2:01pm

Charlie

I always consider Kratos a villain.I mean he killed innocent people which makes him a villain to me. :VOnly DLC character I want is Zero from the X series. I know that'll never happen though <_>

Well he gets tricked by the God of War in the first game into killing everyone pretty much, and I think his side/the Spartans weren't the bad guys in the war. But yeah, I think he is a good guy who has to do bad things to do what he wants. Pretty much everyone in God of War is bad if you think about it. I don't see him as a villain because he got tricked at the beginning and he has to not give a shit to get past everyone and kill the other Gods. I still see him as an evil hero, as weird as that sounds. He just doesn't give a *bleep*! The Gods *bleep*ed him over and he was pissed. He is more bad than good because of killing innocent people, but he isn't completely bad after awhile imo. That's just what I see though.

lol Jigglypuff only has the jumping/float move Kirby has lolwut....You could say their kicks or something are the same, but a lot of the characters kick moves are the same a bit. One or two moves =/= clone too.

But yeah you could platinum this game in one day if you really wanted to. But I'd rather save some trophies at least for the whole week to get. But I'd probably end up getting it in two days if I played it most of the day. Also I can see a PSASBR2 happening of course.

Oct 30, 12 at 1:41pm

Slash

SSB was also on the N64 hence why it had a small amount of characters...Plus 2 of the characters were just clones. Jigglypuff was a clone of Kirby and Luigi was a clone of Mario. :

Oct 30, 12 at 1:34pm

PokemonLeader96

I like that Trophy list. Easy plat. Probably gonna invite a friend over my house and get the plat trophy from day one.I'm sure there will be DLC characters. Maybe they're putting some cool characters (Crash, Cloud, Squall, Snake..) as DLC so they can be sure people will buy it.Then again SSB on N64 didnt have much characters. We can consider All Stars as Sony's first SSB.I'm sure the next All Stars will have a lot of characters just like SSB' sequels (Melee and Brawl)